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Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development - Overview

The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries. Launched in 2004, the Partnership helps measure the information society by:

  • Defining a core list of ICT indicators  and methodologies to collect these indicators;
     

  • Helping developing countries collect ICT statistics, particularly through capacity-building and hands-on training for national statistical offices;
     

  • Collecting and disseminating information society statistics in a number of formats, including a global report and database.

Download the Partnership information brochure.

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Documents and publications

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The Role of ITU

ITU is an active member of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and together with UNCTAD and ECLAC, one of the three members of its Steering Committee.

 

From the core list of indicators identified by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, ITU is responsible for collecting the infrastructure and access indicators (A1-A12) as well as indicators on access to and use of ICTs by households and individuals (HH1-HH13).

 

To improve data availability and comparability, ITU works closely with its member states, particularly the Ministries in charge of telecommunication, regulatory agencies, and national statistical offices. ITU provides technical assistance to enhance the capacity of national statistical offices.

Partnership members

UNEP Basel Convention joins the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development NEW

On December 7th, 2011 - the first day of the ITU's World Telecommunications/ICT Indicators Meeting  in Mauritius, it was announced that the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is expanding with a new member: the UNEP Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposals. Read more.

 

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)   UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

 

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) EUROSTAT
The World Bank UNEP Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC)
Core List of ICT indicators

One of the key achievements of the Partnership has been the identification of a core list of indicators. This list of over 50 indicators, which was agreed upon through a consultation process involving governments and international organisations, covers basic infrastructure and access indicators as well as ICTs in households, enterprises, education and government. The list, which is revised regularly, was identified to help guide countries in measuring the information society. A revised and extended core list was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2012. NEW

Find out more about the core list, and download the Core ICT Indicators 2010...

WSIS follow-up

The Partnership's work is closely related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which called upon countries and international organisations to develop appropriate indicators and produce official statistics to monitor the Information Society. The WSIS Tunis Agenda for the Information Society makes reference to the Partnership and invites the international community to strengthen the ICT-related statistical capacity of developing countries, which is also a key objective of the Partnership.
 

 

  • Download the 2010 Preliminary Report on WSIS Targets, which was prepared by the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Society of Ecuador, available in English and Spanish (pdf format)

 

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